Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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Make friends before you need them

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson